Name: Meet the Ranchers Who Claim the Brazilian Amazon is Theirs to Burn | The Dispatch
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It’s reaching up into the canopy here, too,

Are you worried about the illicit activity

In August, this corridor for soy and beef exports

Many of the fires were started on protected lands

on a single day, a so-called Day of Fire.

So, I take the highway here to a protected reserve that saw

It’s called the Jamanxim National Forest.

That’s an area twice the size of Manhattan.

It’s the worst deforestation of all protected areas

Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of beef.

About half of the cattle are raised on pasture

I’m visiting an annual barbecue and auction

But it’s not your typical backyard get-together.

Some landowners and ranchers here brazenly defy

this man, a union leader, to land-grabbing schemes.

This woman, head of a national association,

was fined for burning 350 acres of rainforest.

is to privatize the reserves, and there’s hostility here

an important government official, Nabhan Garcia,

There’s no question which side Mr. Garcia’s on.

According to your own government studies,

many of the people in some of these protected areas

to your own government standards right now.

To be clear, deforesting land without authorization

We’re talking millions of acres, billions of dollars

what turns out to be a pretty complicated question.

His ranch is right at the edge of the Jamanxim National Forest.

is this the first settlement that you built?

part of a government plan to develop the Amazon.

Then the political winds shifted and preservation

previously given to Luiz and other producers.

responded by grabbing and burning protected land.

I take a ride with Agamenon da Silva Menezes.

He’s the head of a union for ranchers out here.

there was an unusual spike in the number of fires on Aug. 10.

Local reporters wrote about this so-called Day of Fire,

exposing a coordinated plan among ranchers and land-grabbers

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